Vehicle listing generation and optimization system

ABSTRACT

Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a vehicle listing generation and optimization system. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to generate a vehicle listing to sell a vehicle on a website. A plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehicle to be sold are determined, the plurality of vehicle listings including a plurality of features providing information about a respective vehicle featured in the vehicle listing and a performance metric indicating an effectiveness of a respective listing. A first cluster of listings from the plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehicle are identified based on based on performing artificial intelligence clustering with respect to the metric. Common features amongst a subset of the first cluster of listings are identified. A user interface of a sales template for selling the vehicle associated with the request via the website is generated, wherein the sales template includes the common identified features.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No.17/588,633 entitled “Vehicle Listing Generation And OptimizationSystem,” filed Jan. 31, 2022, which is a continuation of U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 17/078,181 entitled “Vehicle Listing Generation AndOptimization System,” filed Oct. 23, 2020, both of which are herebyexpressly incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.

BACKGROUND

Many people sell items online, including both small, inexpensive items,such as trinkets and t-shirts, and larger, more expensive items such asvehicles and real estate. With more expensive items, potential buyersoften want more information and more particular information to make surethe item they are about to purchase will suit their needs.

A vehicle listing may include different information about the vehiclethat is provided by a user. Examples of vehicle listing information mayinclude images of the vehicle, description information, model type,color, mileage, condition, features, etc. Providing all of thisinformation requires both time and computing resources to generate andproduce. For example, a user may take a picture, edit the picture, andupload the picture to a website for a vehicle listing. Then each timethe vehicle listing is accessed the picture is loaded over and overagain at the requesting devices.

The purpose behind a vehicle listing is to sell the vehicle in theshortest amount of time, with the highest possible price and the leastamount of effort, cost, time, and computing resources possible. If auser generates a vehicle listing, and the vehicle does not sell, thenall of the computing resources, time, and, energy spent will have beenwasted. As such, there is a balance between providing enough informationfor a potential buyer to make an informed decision, and providing toomuch information such that time, money, and computing resources arewasted in collecting, providing, and making available the extraneousinformation.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings are incorporated herein and form a part of thespecification.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating example functionality forproviding a vehicle listing generation and optimization system,according to some embodiments.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example template, according tosome embodiments.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating example operations of a vehiclelisting generation and optimization system, according to someembodiments.

FIG. 4 is example computer system useful for implementing variousembodiments.

In the drawings, like reference numbers generally indicate identical orsimilar elements. Additionally, generally, the left-most digit(s) of areference number identifies the drawing in which the reference numberfirst appears.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Provided herein are system, apparatus, device, method and/or computerprogram product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinationsthereof, for providing a vehicle listing generation and optimizationsystem.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram 100 illustrating example functionality forproviding a vehicle listing generation and optimization system,according to some embodiments. Generating vehicle listings for selling avehicle online on a website or through the Internet can be a time andresource consuming process: in taking pictures, processing or editingthe pictures, writing text, providing vehicle information, etc.

A vehicle listing generator (VLG) 102 may help to improve or optimizethe vehicle listing generation process by producing listings that aremore likely to produce results (e.g., sales in faster times) whilerequiring fewer computing resources (e.g., fewer images, less text,smaller packets, less image processing, smaller data packets, etc.) andthat require less time and energy from the user to create.

In an embodiment, VLG 102 may use artificial intelligence clustering orunsupervised learning to identify what information of a vehicle listingis most closely related to generating sales or interest in a particularvehicle type. VLG 102 may begin with a set of training data, and mayrefine its clusters and suggestions as to how to organize or format avehicle listing over time with new vehicle listings that have producedresults such as sales.

VLG 102 may identify what perspectives of images, types of informationor text, and/or listing formats or arrangements produce the best and/orworst results in terms of sales, views, clicks, price, or some otherperformance metric. VLG 102 may analyze and cluster or group previoussales listings 104A-C by vehicle type, vehicle class, year, price range,geography, condition, make, model, color, etc. VLG 102 may then identifywhat characteristics, features, images, most closely corresponded tosuccessful outcomes or sales with the highest price or shortest numberof days to sell for particular vehicles. Using this data-backed,clustering analysis, VLG 102 may guide a user into how to createoptimized sales listings with less computing resources that are moreeffective at producing desired or desirable outcomes.

In an embodiment, VLG 102 may receive or have access to a set ofhistorical or closed listings 104A-C. For simplicity, only threelistings 104A-C are illustrated in the set of listings, however the setof listings may actually include any number of listings: hundreds,thousands, or millions of listings. Listings 104A-C may includepreviously generated listings or advertisements for vehicles for saleacross one or more geographic regions and/or websites 126. Each listing104A-C may include its own set of images 106A-C and/or information ortext 108 about the vehicle listed for sale in the particular listing.Each of those images 106A-C may be taken from different perspectives,such as front of car, back of car, driver side, passenger side, displaypanel, interior, engine, trunk, etc.

Each listing 104A-C may also include its own format 110. Format 110 mayinclude an ordering or relative placement or arrangement of the images106A-C and/or text 108 to one another on a particular webpage orlisting. For example, listing 104A may include a format in which all theimages 106A-C appear above the text 108. Listing 104B however mayinclude a format 110 in which the text about the vehicle is placed tothe left of only a singular image (as opposed to having multipleimages). Listing 104C may then have its own unique format 110, or mayhave a similar format 110 to either listing 104A or 104B. Format 110 mayalso include the font size, font type, colors, or filters used on theimages 106 and/or text 110 of a particular listing 104. As used herein,listing 104 is a general term that may be used to refer to any oneand/or combination of the listings 104A-C.

In an embodiment, each listing 104 may also include one or more resultsmetrics, such as sales time 112. Sales time 112 may be a measure of howlong a particular listing was active before the vehicle was sold, or howlong the vehicle has been listed (if not sold, or before it was removedor deactivated). Sales time 112 may include a number of hours, days,weeks, or months before the listing was updated as being sold, ordeactivated. Other example results metrics may include price and numberof clicks or response. For example, the number of clicks may measure howmany clicks a particular listing 104 received during the first week ofthe sales listing, or the average number of clicks per day.

In an embodiment, VLG 102 may cluster the listings 104 based on thesales time 112 or other results-oriented metric. VLG 102 may useclustering analysis to generate clusters 116A-C of the listings 104A-C.Each cluster 116A-C may include a set of listings that were determinedto be similarly effective in producing a desirable outcome, such asproducing a sale within a particular period of time.

A shorter sales time 112 (or more clicks) may indicate a more effectivelisting 104. VLG 102 may then identify similarities amongst overlappingfeatures of the listings 104 with shorter sales times, and similaritiesor commonalities amongst those listings 104 with longer sales times. Inan embodiment, VLG 102 may weigh the similar features of the moreeffective listings (e.g., from cluster 116A) more heavily than thefeatures of the less effective listings (e.g., from cluster 116B and116C), in determining what listing attributes would be recommended toinclude in a new sales listing 122 in order to shorten the sales time ormaximize the number of clicks. In an embodiment, the similaritiesamongst listings in the least effect cluster 116C may be used todetermine what features should not be included in a new sales listing122.

As noted above, other metrics such as price, number of clicks,engagement measures, time spent on the listing, responses to listing,etc. may be used in addition to or as an alternative to sales time 112to cluster and analyze the listings 104, as described herein. Engagementmay include for example, whether someone saves or favorites a listing,saves an image from the listing, or emails the listing to someone else.

In an embodiment, a cluster engine 114 may perform the actual clusteringprocess, using one or more metrics, and any type of clustering process,including but not limited to K-means, mean-shift, density-based,expectation-maximization, and Gaussian clustering. An example clusteringbased on sales time 112 is illustrated in clusters 116A, 116B, and 116Cwhich are arranged and ordered based on the number of days the listingtook to sell the listed vehicle.

As illustrated, cluster 116A may include those listings 104 thatresulted in vehicles being sold in less than 30 days, cluster 116B mayinclude those listings 104 that resulted in vehicles being sold between31-60 days, and cluster 116C may include those listings 104 thatresulted in vehicles being sold in more than 61 days or that were notsold at all. In an embodiment, there may be another cluster for listingsthat were deactivated before sale, or those listings may be ignored fromthe clustering process.

The 30 day time period increments are exemplary, and based on the actualsales times 112, the number of clusters and time periods of the clusters116 (which is used to refer to any or the combination of the group ofclusters 116A-C) may vary. In an embodiment, the clusters 116A-C may beupdated on an ongoing basis as new listings 104A-C are received andprocessed. For example, when a new listing is received, VLG 102 maycluster the listing according to the clusters 116A-C and processesdescribed herein.

In an embodiment, with ongoing listing analysis, VLG 102 may detect, inreal-time, when sales trends are changing. For example, while anoriginal set of listings 104 may have deemed side view as being moreimportant than front view for a particular vehicle, newer or more recentsales (which may be weighted more heavily by VLG 102) may indicatelistings with front view images first sold faster than side view first.This may cause the clusters 116A-C, and the identified overlappingfeatures and recommendations for a new sales listing 122 to be adjustedthrough a template 118.

Based on the listings 104 in each cluster 116, VLG 102 may determinecommonalities or overlapping features present in the various listings104 of the clusters 116 which may be attributed to contributing to thecorresponding sales metric 112. For example, VLG 102 may identify that90% of the listings in the first cluster 116A include a first image 106Athat is of a driver-side view of the vehicle, and only 30% of thelistings in the third cluster 116C include the driver-side view of thevehicle as the first image. Based on this analysis, VLG 102 maydetermine that including a driver-side view of the vehicle as the firstimage in the listing improves the likelihood of selling the vehicle in ashorter time period.

As referenced above, cluster engine 114 may perform clustering andanalysis on any sales or effectiveness metric that may be available withlistings 104, such as price, clicks, numbers of responses, orengagement, and based on any portion(s) of a sales listing: text,images, format, etc. In an embodiment, a user 120 may select whichresults metrics are most important to the user 120, and VLG 102 maycluster the listings 104A-C and identify commonalities and generate atemplate 118 accordingly. As described herein, VLG 102 may generatemultiple different templates 118 based on the selections of a user 120.

In an embodiment, VLG 102 may differentiate between vehicle types. Forexample, while drive-side view may be important for a first model truck,for a different model truck, or for a different type of vehicle: car,boat, etc., different views or perspectives for images 106A-C may bemore correspondent or effective to producing faster sales or moreclicks. For example, sales of a different type of truck may indicatethat rear view is more valuable than side view. Or for example, imagesof boats in the water may be more common amongst listings in cluster116A than the images in the listings of either cluster 116B or 116C.

In an embodiment, VLG 102 may group or vary commonalities by geography.Such that listings of trucks in a first climate or geographic regionthat include a front view with the text “rugged” may sell faster thansimilar trucks in a second climate or geographic region in which theinterior images or the term “luxury” produce faster sales.

In an embodiment, VLG 102 may determine any commonalities of the format110 of the listings 104. In an embodiment, format 110 may include theordering and/or placement of images 106, the types of information ortext 108, and the ordering and/or placement of the text 108 and images116, and the size, font, or color of text.

As just referenced, using cluster and other analysis, VLG 102 mayidentify commonalities and overlapping features amongst the listings 104within and across the clusters 116A-C according to the sales time 112metric. Based on the cluster and other analysis, VLG 102 may generate atemplate 118 that enables a user 120 to generate a listing 122 for avehicle 124 on a website 126 using their mobile device 128.

In an embodiment, the template 118 may guide or recommend to the user120 as to which information (e.g., text 108 and/or perspectives of thevehicle for sale 124 in images 106A-C) is needed to produce a fastestsale or most clicks on their advertisement. The template 118 mayrecommend the least amount of information that is determined to becorrespondent to increased or faster sales, thereby minimizing both thetime and computing resources required to create a sales listing 122 onwebsite 126.

In an embodiment, VLG 102 may have determined that users only went tothe fifth or later images of a sales listing 104 12% of the time for thefirst two clusters 116A, 116B, and thus the first four images are themost important. A user 120 may want to upload eight images of theirvehicle 124. Based on the data-backed analysis, VLG 102 may recommendadditional image processing or refinement (e.g., adding filters,adjusting color or brightness, etc.) on only the first four images. Thusrather than investing the computing resources and time in editing alleight images, only four images may be image processed. In anotherembodiment, upon receiving the recommendation from VLG 102 via template118, the user 120 may only upload the best four images for their saleslisting 122, instead of all eight images thus saving bandwidth andcomputing resources.

In an embodiment, template 118 may be integrated into a setup wizardprogram that walks a user 120 through the process of setting up alisting 122 using their mobile device 128 (e.g., mobile phone, laptop,tablet, etc.). In an embodiment, user 120 may log in to or create anaccount with a particular website 126 that enables user 120 to post alisting 122 offering their vehicle 124 for sale. Examples of website 126may include a dealership website, online sales portal, or onlineclassified listings (including social media related classifieds). In anembodiment, website 126 may communicate with an app that is operabledirectly from mobile device 128. In an embodiment, VLG 102 may receiveinformation from user 120 through template 118, and upload or generatesales listings 122 or the vehicle 124 across multiple different websites126, adjusting the format 130 accordingly, based on the data or listings104A-C particular for each website 126 or across different websites 126.In an embodiment, VLG 102 may then auto-generate the listing.

In an embodiment, using their mobile device 128, user 120 may indicatethey want to sell their truck 124 or other vehicle such as a car,motorcycle, bicycle, van, etc. Template 118 may then prompt the user 120for images of a driver side view, passenger view, interior, engine, andother perspectives of the vehicle 124 that have been determined to bemost correspondent to faster sales for previous listings 104A-C for asimilar vehicle to the vehicle for sale 124. In an embodiment, template118 may recommend against including certain other images, such as imagesof the owner with the vehicle which may have been included in thelistings of cluster 116C which took the longest to sell.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram 200 illustrating an example template 218,according to some embodiments. The template 218 may be an exampleembodiment of template 118 for a sales listing 122. In an embodiment,VLG 102 may guide a user 120 into filling out the various sections oftemplate 218 for a listing 122.

As illustrated, the user 120 may be prompted to provide various text,information, pictures (from particular perspectives), audio, video,and/or other multimedia about the vehicle for sale. For example,template 218 may include particular images 206A-C that were determined,based on the clustering analysis of various successful listings 104, tobe important to potential buyers and correspondent to faster sales (withcluster 116A). Examples may include a driver side image of the vehicle206A, an image of the front of the vehicle 206B, and an image of thedashboard 206C. In other embodiments, different numbers of images and/ordifferent perspectives could be requested or required as part oftemplate 218. The user 120 may also upload other, non-requested, imageperspectives or information.

In an embodiment, the user 120 may select, by using their mobile device128, which portion of the template 218 the user wants to provide. Forexample, the user may select driver side image 206A and be prompted toselect from their camera roll or take a driver side picture of theirvehicle.

VLG 102 may also request information about features 240 of the vehiclefrom a user 120. Some example features 240 as illustrated and include:make, model, year, mileage, price, condition (e.g., new, good, poor,etc.), upgrades, and price. Other example features may include whetherit has satellite radio/television, DVD player, mobile phone connections,color, interior color, interior material, wheel size, damage, etc. In anembodiment, the feature information 240 may be provided via text and/orimages. For example, VLG 102 may request a picture of the odometer toverify the mileage.

Template 218 may include a place for a user to provide a title 208A, asubtitle 208B, and any free text 208C or user provided descriptioninformation that the user 120 wants to provide. In an embodiment,template 218 may include parameters or recommendations for text 208A-C,such as recommended length, recommended words to use and/or recommendedwords to avoid.

Format 230 may refer to a recommended formatting, ordering, and/oralignment of the information (text, images, or multimedia) of template218 as described above. For example, format 230 may indicate thatfeatures 240 should appear before images 206A-C in a vertical alignmentof a listing, and the particular ordering of the images 206A, 206B, andthen 206C relative to each other.

In an embodiment, VLG 102 may score the various features or portions oftemplate 218 that are provided or uploaded by user 120. For example, aspart of the clustering analysis, VLG 102 may perform, identify, orgenerate a scoring system that corresponds to the relative importance tothe various features of template 218. For example, driver side image206A may be provided the highest weighted score, while free text 208Cmay be assigned the lowest weighted score. Or, for example, scores maybe assigned in a binary manner, in that the inclusion of a feature oftemplate results in a score of 1, while a user 120 not providedparticular information, may result in a 0 score. In an embodiment, afeature that was identified across more of the listings of an effectivecluster 116A, such as dashboard images 206C may be scored higher thaninformation that was identified in fewer listings of the same cluster116B, such as trunk images.

In an embodiment, during or after user 120 has provided information fortemplate 218, VLG 102 may generate and display a score 250 for the user120. The score may be a completeness or likelihood of sales score basedon the scoring system. For example, the user may provide some of theinformation of template 218, but not all of the information. VLG 102 mayinform the user 120 that the template 218 has a score of 8, and thattemplates with scores less than 12 are demonstrated to take twice aslong to sell. Then, for example, VLG 102 may recommend which portions oftemplate 218 user 120 needs to provide information for in order to reachthe score of 12. In an embodiment, VLG 102 may not allow template 218 tobe activated as a sales listing 122 until a minimum threshold score hasbeen reached.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart 300 illustrating example operations of a vehiclelisting generation and optimization system, according to someembodiments. Method 300 can be performed by processing logic that cancomprise hardware (e.g., circuitry, dedicated logic, programmable logic,microcode, etc.), software (e.g., instructions executing on a processingdevice), or a combination thereof. For example, various steps in method300 may be performed using one or application programming interfaces(APIs) operating on one or more processing devices. It is to beappreciated that not all steps may be needed to perform the disclosureprovided herein. Further, some of the steps may be performedsimultaneously, or in a different order than shown in FIG. 3 , as willbe understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art. Method 300 shallbe described with reference to FIG. 1 . However, method 300 is notlimited to the example embodiments.

In 310, a set of vehicle listings of a common vehicle type isdetermined. Each vehicle listing in the set of vehicle listing mayinclude one or more images of a respective vehicle of the common vehicletype. Each image may be taken from a particular perspective. Eachvehicle listing may also correspond to a sales time metric specifyinghow long the respective vehicle featured in a respective vehicle listingtook to sell. For example, VLG 102 may receive a set of listings 104A-Cfor a car 124 of a particular make and model. Each listing 104A-C mayinclude images 106A-C of the respective vehicles taken at differentperspectives, from different points of views, different angles, or ofdifferent features of the car 124. VLG 102 may also receive or determinea sales time 112 metric indicating how long the particular vehicle 124took to sell on a website 126.

In 320, the set of vehicle listings is clustered into a plurality ofclusters based on the sales time metrics. Each cluster may include oneor more of the vehicle listings from the set of vehicle listings. Forexample, cluster engine 114 may cluster or group the listings 104A-Cinto various clusters 116A-C based on the sales time metric 112. In anembodiment, multiple different clusters 116A-C may be generated based ondifferent results-oriented metrics that were selected.

In 330, a first one of the clusters for which the sales time metric ofthe vehicle listings of the selected cluster is less than the sales timemetric of the vehicle listings of a second one of the clusters isselected. For example, VLG 102 may identify the listings of cluster 116Asold faster than listings of cluster 116B, and thus the features of thelistings of cluster 116A are to be weighed more heavily than thefeatures of listings of cluster 116B in determining what features helpedthe cars sell faster.

In 340, the perspectives of the images in vehicle listings of theselected cluster are identified. For example, VLG 102 may compare theimages 106A-C across the listings included in each cluster 116A, 116B,and 116C, and compare the similarities within each cluster across thevarious clusters 116A-C. VLG 102 may identify which perspectives (in theimages 106A-C) of the cars 124 of each listing are most corresponding toa shorter sales time.

In 350, a sales template for the vehicle type including the identifiedperspectives of images corresponding at least a subset of the vehiclelistings of the selected cluster is generated. The sales template may bea wizard program or preformatted template that indicate how to describethe common vehicle type for sale on a website. For example, VLG 102 maygenerate template 118 including a format 130 indicating what information(e.g., images, text, features, description, mileage, condition, color,etc.) may be necessary to generate listing 122 for website 126, wherethe car 124 may be listed for sale.

Various embodiments may be implemented, for example, using one or morewell-known computer systems, such as computer system 400 shown in FIG. 4. One or more computer systems 400 may be used, for example, toimplement any of the embodiments discussed herein, as well ascombinations and sub-combinations thereof.

Computer system 400 may include one or more processors (also calledcentral processing units, or CPUs), such as a processor 404. Processor404 may be connected to a communication infrastructure or bus 406.

Computer system 400 may also include customer input/output device(s)403, such as monitors, keyboards, pointing devices, etc., which maycommunicate with communication infrastructure 406 through customerinput/output interface(s) 402.

One or more of processors 404 may be a graphics processing unit (GPU).In an embodiment, a GPU may be a processor that is a specializedelectronic circuit designed to process mathematically intensiveapplications. The GPU may have a parallel structure that is efficientfor parallel processing of large blocks of data, such as mathematicallyintensive data common to computer graphics applications, images, videos,etc.

Computer system 400 may also include a main or primary memory 408, suchas random access memory (RAM). Main memory 408 may include one or morelevels of cache. Main memory 408 may have stored therein control logic(i.e., computer software) and/or data.

Computer system 400 may also include one or more secondary storagedevices or memory 410. Secondary memory 410 may include, for example, ahard disk drive 412 and/or a removable storage device or drive 414.Removable storage drive 414 may be a floppy disk drive, a magnetic tapedrive, a compact disk drive, an optical storage device, tape backupdevice, and/or any other storage device/drive.

Removable storage drive 414 may interact with a removable storage unit418. Removable storage unit 418 may include a computer usable orreadable storage device having stored thereon computer software (controllogic) and/or data. Removable storage unit 418 may be a floppy disk,magnetic tape, compact disk, DVD, optical storage disk, and/ any othercomputer data storage device. Removable storage drive 414 may read fromand/or write to removable storage unit 418.

Secondary memory 410 may include other means, devices, components,instrumentalities or other approaches for allowing computer programsand/or other instructions and/or data to be accessed by computer system400. Such means, devices, components, instrumentalities or otherapproaches may include, for example, a removable storage unit 422 and aninterface 420. Examples of the removable storage unit 422 and theinterface 420 may include a program cartridge and cartridge interface(such as that found in video game devices), a removable memory chip(such as an EPROM or PROM) and associated socket, a memory stick and USBport, a memory card and associated memory card slot, and/or any otherremovable storage unit and associated interface.

Computer system 400 may further include a communication or networkinterface 424. Communication interface 424 may enable computer system400 to communicate and interact with any combination of externaldevices, external networks, external entities, etc. (individually andcollectively referenced by reference number 428). For example,communication interface 424 may allow computer system 400 to communicatewith external or remote devices 428 over communications path 426, whichmay be wired and/or wireless (or a combination thereof), and which mayinclude any combination of LANs, WANs, the Internet, etc. Control logicand/or data may be transmitted to and from computer system 400 viacommunication path 426.

Computer system 400 may also be any of a personal digital assistant(PDA), desktop workstation, laptop or notebook computer, netbook,tablet, smart phone, smart watch or other wearable, appliance, part ofthe Internet-of-Things, and/or embedded system, to name a fewnon-limiting examples, or any combination thereof.

Computer system 400 may be a client or server, accessing or hosting anyapplications and/or data through any delivery paradigm, including butnot limited to remote or distributed cloud computing solutions; local oron-premises software (“on-premise” cloud-based solutions); “as aservice” models (e.g., content as a service (CaaS), digital content as aservice (DCaaS), software as a service (SaaS), managed software as aservice (MSaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), desktop as a service(DaaS), framework as a service (FaaS), backend as a service (BaaS),mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS),etc.); and/or a hybrid model including any combination of the foregoingexamples or other services or delivery paradigms.

Any applicable data structures, file formats, and schemas in computersystem 400 may be derived from standards including but not limited toJavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Extensible Markup Language (XML), YetAnother Markup Language (YAML), Extensible Hypertext Markup Language(XHTML), Wireless Markup Language (WML), MessagePack, XML User InterfaceLanguage (XUL), or any other functionally similar representations aloneor in combination. Alternatively, proprietary data structures, formatsor schemas may be used, either exclusively or in combination with knownor open standards.

In some embodiments, a tangible, non-transitory apparatus or article ofmanufacture comprising a tangible, non-transitory computer useable orreadable medium having control logic (software) stored thereon may alsobe referred to herein as a computer program product or program storagedevice. This includes, but is not limited to, computer system 400, mainmemory 408, secondary memory 410, and removable storage units 418 and422, as well as tangible articles of manufacture embodying anycombination of the foregoing. Such control logic, when executed by oneor more data processing devices (such as computer system 400), may causesuch data processing devices to operate as described herein.

Based on the teachings contained in this disclosure, it will be apparentto persons skilled in the relevant art(s) how to make and useembodiments of this disclosure using data processing devices, computersystems and/or computer architectures other than that shown in FIG. 4 .In particular, embodiments can operate with software, hardware, and/oroperating system implementations other than those described herein.

It is to be appreciated that the Detailed Description section, and notany other section, is intended to be used to interpret the claims. Othersections can set forth one or more but not all exemplary embodiments ascontemplated by the inventor(s), and thus, are not intended to limitthis disclosure or the appended claims in any way.

While this disclosure describes exemplary embodiments for exemplaryfields and applications, it should be understood that the disclosure isnot limited thereto. Other embodiments and modifications thereto arepossible, and are within the scope and spirit of this disclosure. Forexample, and without limiting the generality of this paragraph,embodiments are not limited to the software, hardware, firmware, and/orentities illustrated in the figures and/or described herein. Further,embodiments (whether or not explicitly described herein) havesignificant utility to fields and applications beyond the examplesdescribed herein.

Embodiments have been described herein with the aid of functionalbuilding blocks illustrating the implementation of specified functionsand relationships thereof. The boundaries of these functional buildingblocks have been arbitrarily defined herein for the convenience of thedescription. Alternate boundaries can be defined as long as thespecified functions and relationships (or equivalents thereof) areappropriately performed. Also, alternative embodiments can performfunctional blocks, steps, operations, methods, etc. using orderingsdifferent than those described herein.

References herein to “one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” “an exampleembodiment,” or similar phrases, indicate that the embodiment describedcan include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, butevery embodiment can not necessarily include the particular feature,structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarilyreferring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature,structure, or characteristic is described in connection with anembodiment, it would be within the knowledge of persons skilled in therelevant art(s) to incorporate such feature, structure, orcharacteristic into other embodiments whether or not explicitlymentioned or described herein. Additionally, some embodiments can bedescribed using the expression “coupled” and “connected” along withtheir derivatives. These terms are not necessarily intended as synonymsfor each other. For example, some embodiments can be described using theterms “connected” and/or “coupled” to indicate that two or more elementsare in direct physical or electrical contact with each other. The term“coupled,” however, can also mean that two or more elements are not indirect contact with each other, but yet still co-operate or interactwith each other.

The breadth and scope of this disclosure should not be limited by any ofthe above-described exemplary embodiments, but should be defined only inaccordance with the following claims and their equivalents.

What is claimed is:
 1. A computer-implemented method comprising:receiving a request to generate a vehicle listing to sell a vehicle viaa website; determining, by one or more processors, a plurality ofvehicle listings similar to the vehicle associated with the request,wherein each vehicle listing, of the plurality of vehicle listings,includes a plurality of features providing information about arespective vehicle featured in the vehicle listing, and wherein eachvehicle listing is associated with a performance metric indicating aneffectiveness of a respective listing; identifying a first cluster oflistings from the plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehiclebased on performing artificial intelligence clustering with respect tothe performance metric, wherein the first cluster of listings comprisesthose listings for the effectiveness of listing in view of theperformance metric was greater than the effectiveness of the listing inview of the performance metric for a second cluster of listings from theplurality of vehicle listings; identifying, by the one or moreprocessors, which of the plurality of features from listings of thefirst cluster of listings are common amongst at least a subset of thefirst cluster of listings; and generating, by the one or moreprocessors, a user interface of a sales template for selling the vehicleassociated with the request via the website, wherein the sales templateincludes the identified features that are common amongst at least thesubset of the first cluster of listings.
 2. The computer-implementedmethod of claim 1, further comprising: determining that each listing inthe first cluster of listings includes a plurality of images;identifying perspectives of the plurality of images for each listing inthe first cluster; determining that the plurality of features commonamongst the first cluster of listings comprises an order of theperspectives of the plurality of images; and wherein the generatingcomprises specifying the order of the perspectives as part of the salestemplate for selling the vehicle.
 3. The computer-implemented method ofclaim 2, further comprising: determining that a plurality of vehicleimages were received with the request; and arranging the plurality ofvehicle images in the identified order based on a perspective of eachvehicle image.
 4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, whereinthe performance metric comprises a sales price metric.
 5. Thecomputer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising: determiningthe plurality of features comprise one or more perspectives of images;prompting a user for perspectives of images of the vehicle to be soldcorresponding to the determined perspectives of images from theplurality of features; receiving images corresponding to at least asubset of the one more perspectives of images; and generating a saleslisting for listing the vehicle associated with the request for salebased on the sales template and including the received images.
 6. Thecomputer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising: calculatinga score for the received images against the perspectives of the imagescorresponding to the sales time metric; and providing the score fordisplay for the user.
 7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5,further comprising: determining that the score is below a threshold; andprompting the user for one or more missing identified perspectives ofimages of the particular vehicle, wherein the missing identifiedperspectives of images correspond to increasing the score.
 8. Thecomputer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving,via the user interface, information corresponding to one or more of theidentified features displayed in the sales template; and posting thevehicle listing to sell the vehicle on the website, using theinformation received via the user interface.
 9. The computer-implementedmethod of claim 1, wherein the set of vehicle listings have been soldthrough the website.
 10. A system comprising at least one processor, theat least one processor configured to perform operations comprising:receiving a request to generate a vehicle listing to sell a vehicle viaa website; determining a plurality of vehicle listings similar to thevehicle associated with the request, wherein each vehicle listing, ofthe plurality of vehicle listings, includes a plurality of featuresproviding information about a respective vehicle featured in the vehiclelisting, and wherein each vehicle listing is associated with aperformance metric indicating an effectiveness of a respective listing;identifying a first cluster of listings from the plurality of vehiclelistings similar to the vehicle based on performing artificialintelligence clustering with respect to the performance metric, whereinthe first cluster of listings comprises those listings for theeffectiveness of listing in view of the performance metric was greaterthan the effectiveness of the listing in view of the performance metricfor a second cluster of listings from the plurality of vehicle listings;identifying which of the plurality of features from listings of thefirst cluster of listings are common amongst at least a subset of thefirst cluster of listings; and generating a user interface of a salestemplate for selling the vehicle associated with the request via thewebsite, wherein the sales template includes the identified featuresthat are common amongst at least the subset of the first cluster oflistings.
 11. The system of claim 10, the operations further comprising:determining that each listing in the first cluster of listings includesa plurality of images; identifying perspectives of the plurality ofimages for each listing in the first cluster; determining that theplurality of features common amongst the first cluster of listingscomprises an order of the perspectives of the plurality of images; andwherein the generating comprises specifying the order of theperspectives as part of the sales template for selling the vehicle. 12.The system of claim 11, the operations further comprising: determiningthat a plurality of vehicle images were received with the request; andarranging the plurality of vehicle images in the identified order basedon a perspective of each vehicle image.
 13. The system of claim 10,wherein the performance metric comprises a sales price metric.
 14. Thesystem of claim 10, the operations further comprising: determining theplurality of features comprise one or more perspectives of images;prompting a user for perspectives of images of the vehicle to be soldcorresponding to the determined perspectives of images from theplurality of features; receiving images corresponding to at least asubset of the one more perspectives of images; and generating a saleslisting for listing the vehicle associated with the request for salebased on the sales template and including the received images.
 15. Thesystem of claim 14, the operations further comprising: calculating ascore for the received images against the perspectives of the imagescorresponding to the sales time metric; and providing the score fordisplay for the user.
 16. The system of claim 15, the operations furthercomprising: determining that the score is below a threshold; andprompting the user for one or more missing identified perspectives ofimages of the particular vehicle, wherein the missing identifiedperspectives of images correspond to increasing the score.
 17. Thesystem of claim 10, the operations further comprising: receiving, viathe user interface, information corresponding to one or more of theidentified features displayed in the sales template; and posting thevehicle listing to sell the vehicle on the website, using theinformation received via the user interface.
 18. The system of claim 10,wherein the set of vehicle listings have been sold through the website.19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions storedthereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one ormore processors to perform operations comprising: receiving a request togenerate a vehicle listing to sell a vehicle via a website; determininga plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehicle associated withthe request, wherein each vehicle listing, of the plurality of vehiclelistings, includes a plurality of features providing information about arespective vehicle featured in the vehicle listing, and wherein eachvehicle listing is associated with a performance metric indicating aneffectiveness of a respective listing; identifying a first cluster oflistings from the plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehiclebased on performing artificial intelligence clustering with respect tothe performance metric, wherein the first cluster of listings comprisesthose listings for the effectiveness of listing in view of theperformance metric was greater than the effectiveness of the listing inview of the performance metric for a second cluster of listings from theplurality of vehicle listings; identifying which of the plurality offeatures from listings of the first cluster of listings are commonamongst at least a subset of the first cluster of listings; andgenerating a user interface of a sales template for selling the vehicleassociated with the request via the website, wherein the sales templateincludes the identified features that are common amongst at least thesubset of the first cluster of listings.
 20. The non-transitorycomputer-readable medium of claim 19, the operations further comprising:determining that each listing in the first cluster of listings includesa plurality of images; identifying perspectives of the plurality ofimages for each listing in the first cluster; determining that theplurality of features common amongst the first cluster of listingscomprises an order of the perspectives of the plurality of images; andwherein the generating comprises specifying the order of theperspectives as part of the sales template for selling the vehicle.